New School Year

Welcome to the new year at St. Sylvester's! You can see in the pictures above the students working on their covers for their writers' notebooks, which they have been adding entries to ranging from challenges they faced to what they think about their name. There are also pictures of an experiment done in the first week of school. Students needed to manipulate variables to change the distance a "car" made out of index paper went, and at the end, the challenge was to make it go exactly the distance I gave the class.

In reading and writing, we've been studying why author's write, reading selections from picture books and non-fiction books. We'll begin reading Henry and Ribsy soon, while looking at predictions,connections, and questioning skills, while in writing, we'll take a paragraph through the five stages of the writing process. In science, the students are learning how to classify everything from alien slugs to shark teeth, then they'll be classifying animals into vertebrates, invertebrates, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Social studies is focusing on the history of the US and sequencing skills, while in religion we're learning about the covenant and the first three commandments.